from Ed Willes of the Vancouver Province,

With an eye sharpened through decades of weighing and measuring hockey talent, Jim Benning quickly formed a determination on Nikita Tryamkin.

“He’s 6-foot-7, he can skate and he can make a first pass,” the Canucks general manager said before Wednesday night’s game against the visiting Arizona Coyotes. “Those guys don’t grow on trees.”...

The Tryamkin signing is meaningful on a couple of different levels for Benning’s organization but the most important might be the signalling of a new generation of Canucks defencemen.

Just 21, the massive blue-liner will play some games for the Canucks down the stretch where he could be joined by Andrey Pedan, the 6-foot-5, 213-pounder who has impressed (six goals, plus-19) in Utica this season.

The prospect of having the twin towers on the same blue-line is beyond enticing for Canucks fans but the Tryamkin deal comes with a caveat.

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